'Soft Brexit is dead': Nick Clegg admits his fight to keep UK in Single Market is over

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Nick Clegg gives a media interview as he stands with demontrators from pro-EU group Open Britain as they protest outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London on 29 March, 2017Credit:
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Nick Clegg has conceded defeat in his fight to keep Britain in the EU’s Single Market and Customs Union and admitted that ‘soft Brexit’ is dead.

The former deputy prime minister attacked Brexiteers as “very rich, very angry old men” before comparing them to Bolsheviks who had no mandate for hard Brexit.

Theresa May would be victorious in creating a Britain free of the influence of Brussels, Sir Nick told the Lisbon Council think tank on Monday evening, but he called on Westminster MPs to vote down her final Brexit deal.